# Graph Complexity

> The degree to which tracking fine-grained causal dependencies grows the dependency graph large and hard to reason about.

Record: `lexicon:graph-complexity`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Causality Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/causality-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-graph-complexity

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Dependency Declaration](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/dependency-declaration.md) and before [Hidden Dependency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/hidden-dependency.md).

## Category

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)

## In tension with

- [Causal Dependency](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/causal-dependency.md)
- [Causal Dependency / Graph Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/causal-dependency-graph-complexity.md)

## Linked from

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)